In the past few years we've seen a lot of hardware-based innovation (or at the very least expansion). New products and markets have arisen built around hardware and its use. Smartphones, tablets, netbooks and gaming systems are all examples of markets that have expanded and some if not most of the products make use of free software.
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Eben Moglen's LibrePlanet 2010 Keynote on the State of Free Software and the Future
Eben Mogen of the Software Freedom Law Center recently gave the keynote address at the LibrePlanet conference hosted by the Free Software Foundation. He speaks about the current state of Free Software, what some of the challenges will be going forward, and what is needed for stage 2, as he thinks of it.
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Education Across The Nation - Free Software in Ethics and in Practise - Canberra, 6 Oct 2010
"Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms..."
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Richard Stallman on Australia: Q&A
"...In October Stallman will visit Australia to speak — among other events — at UNSW’s Clancy Auditorium in an event being supported by National ICT Australia. But we got in touch with Stallman ahead of time for a chat about the Government’s internet filter project, free software and why he likes to visit Australia for its parrots..."
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KDE Releases Development Platform, Applications and Plasma Workspaces 4.5.0
New Versions of the KDE Development Platform, the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, and many applications are released today with the version number 4.5.0. The KDE team focused on the usability, performance and stability of many previously introduced new features and technologies. Below, find the 3 separate announcements for each of KDE's products: The Development Platform, the Applications Compilation and the Plasma Workspaces.
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Richard Stallman at the University of New South Wales - Kensington (NSW, Australia), 11 Oct 2010
"Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities..."
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Linux-libre 2.6.35 & 2.6.34-1 Released
«Linux-libre is a project that aims to publish and maintain modified versions of the Linux kernel that only include free software...» — via Linux-libre, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia —
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Software Freedom Day Melbourne Photo Shoot
"Last week I was invited to take some publicity shots for the Software Freedom Day Melbourne crew at the State Library of Victoria Experimedia centre..."
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SFD 2010 Registration is OPEN!!
"Dear all, this is with a lot of struggles that we have finally managed to open the SFD 2010 registration! As you can see there is still a lot of ongoing work on the site, and this includes a New Wiki where you can create your team page, a new home page for all the information about Software Freedom International and other generic and important stuff and much more to come..."
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Mini Debian Conference, Pune, Day-2
"After the first day of enthusiastic activities like talks and hands on workshops, the momentum had been set for the second day of the MiniDebConf..."
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Eben Moglen on Bilski, Software Patents, and Big Pharma
This interview is part of a series following the Supreme Court's Bilski decision, which left the laws on what you can get a patent on largely as they are, after a four-justice minority failed to ban "business method" patents.
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Stallman on Microsoft Sponsorship
Accepting the money from Microsoft would, in itself, do not harm. But Microsoft typically demands a price for its sponsorship, a price that implies a change in the nature of the event. The price might be, let someone from Microsoft give a speech. The price might be, don’t say that proprietary software is evil. The price might be, present Microsoft sponsorship in a way that inhibits
you from denouncing Microsoft’s software as unethical.
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German ministries flout IT open interoperability requirements
Survey finds only 2 of 87 departments are conforming to federal open document regulations. Research published this week suggests that the majority of federal government departments in Germany are ignoring requirements to implement Open Standards.
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Eben Moglen on the Current State of Free Software
At this year's LibrePlanet conference hosted by the Free Software Foundation, Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center gave a keynote speech on the current state of free software and the free software movement.
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A New Sports Activity Tracking App (still needs a name)
This one’s an activity and sports tracking application similar to Sport Tracks or Garmin Training Center. It’s not a hundred percent complete yet and has its share of rough edges and its author is looking for a good name for it.
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